Marco frascari's dream house : a theory of imagination
Publication details: New York Routledge 2017Description: xxiv,i,212pISBN:- 9781138189652
- 720.1 FRA
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CONTENTS
List of Figures xi
Notes on contributors xix
Acknowledgements xxiii
List of abbreviations xx
Introduction 1
Federica Goffi
Panta Rhei: in the Drawn and Written Lines of the "Dream House" 1
Reading Drawings: A "Science Without a Name" 10
Notes 20
1. A Congenial Inauguration 25
MARCO FRASCARI
The Magic Meal 26
The Ingredients 29
Notes 35
2. Telling and Casting
MARCO FRASCARI
The Requirements of the Play 41
The Incubation 45
Notes 49
3. The Importance of Dreaming in Architecture 52
MARCO FRASCARI
The Magic Threshold 53
A Mantic View 57
The Magic of Translation 64
The Trade 67
Notes 71
4. The Origin and Beginning of the Dream House 73
MARCO FRASCARI
The Practice of Dreaming 76
Description of the Design of the House-Tower 79
Notes 81
5. The Present Architecture Smells Bad 83
MARCO FRASCARI
Vita Beata 84
The Happiness of Bathroom Imagination 84
Notes 92
6. The Analogical Monster 95
The Drawings of the House-Tower 97
The Recto and the Verso 98
Notes 99
Conclusions
MARCO FRASCARI
Dream Long and hard Enough 101
Notes 102
Portfolio : Drawings, Model and Sketchbooks for the House-Tower 103
Postscript Interview with Claudio Sgarbi 182
Federica Goffi and Claudio Sgarbi
Oneiric Recollections of a Design 182
Index 204
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